Pick of the week
One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson finally gets his Oscar – and with one of his most riotously enjoyable films. His take on Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland ejects the author’s trademark impenetrability and gives us a larger-than-life action caper with political undertones. Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), part of a US left-wing revolutionary group betrayed by his own lover, lives off-grid with teen daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti). That is until white supremacist Col Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn) comes searching for Willa – who may be his child – and she and Bob are forced on the run. Also in the mix are Benicio del Toro’s martial arts teacher/migrant activist, two assassins and a bunch of radical nuns. Breathless fun.
Thursday, 10.30am, 10.20pm, Sky Cinema Premiere/HBO Max
